Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108421362 |
| ISBN10: | 1108421369 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 356 pages |
| Size: | 253x180x20 mm |
| Weight: | 880 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 69 b/w illus. 3 tables |
| 240 |
Category:
Creativity in the Bronze Age
Understanding Innovation in Pottery, Textile, and Metalwork Production
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 18 January 2018
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Short description:
This book explores the nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age through developments in pottery, textiles, and metalwork.
Long description:
Creativity is an integral part of human history, yet most studies focus on the modern era, leaving unresolved questions about the formative role that creativity has played in the past. This book explores the fundamental nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age. Considering developments in crafts that we take for granted today, such as pottery, textiles, and metalwork, the volume compares and contrasts various aspects of their development, from the construction of the materials themselves, through the production processes, to the design and effects deployed in finished objects. It explores how creativity is closely related to changes in material culture, how it directs responses to the new and unfamiliar, and how it has resulted in changes to familiar things and practices. Written by an international team of scholars, the case studies in this volume consider wider issues and provide detailed insights into creative solutions found in specific objects.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen; Part I. Raw Materials: Creativity and the Properties of Materials: Introduction Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen; Fibres for Bronze Age textiles Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen and Antoinette Rast-Eicher; Making metals: from copper to bronze Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen and Grahame Appleby; Potter's clay Joanna Sofaer; Creativity and materials: reflections Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen, Joanna Sofaer and Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen; Part II. Production Practices: Introduction Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen, Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen and Joanna Sofaer; Textile production Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen; The production of metal objects Grahame Appleby and Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen; The production of pottery Joanna Sofaer; Case studies; Introduction; 1. Creativity and spindle whorls at the Bronze Age tell of Sz&&&225;zhalombatta-F&&&246;ldv&&&225;r, Hungary Sophie Bergerbrant; 2. Forming metal: the development of moulds Grahame Appleby and Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen; 3. Variability in the Cha&&&238;ne Op&&&233;ratoire: the case of Belegi&&&353; cremation vessels Sarah Coxon; 4. The production of Scandinavian Bronze Age textiles: skill and creativity S&&&248;lvi Helene Foss&&&248;y; 5. Twisting the Bronze Age Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen; Production practices: reflections Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen, Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen and Joanna Sofaer; Part III. Effects: Shape, Motifs, Pattern, Colour, and Texture: Introduction Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen and Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen; Case studies; Introduction; 6. Creativity in Bronze Age tailoring: women's blouses from Denmark Helga R&&&246;sel-Mautendorfer; 7. The one-edged razor: a vivid medium of creativity and meaning Flemming Kaul; 8. Creativity in middle and late Bronze Age bird-shaped and bird-ornamented ceramic objects in the Carpathian Basin and the lower Danube Region Darko Mari&&&269;evi&&&263; and Joanna Sofaer; 9. To decorate a Nordic Bronze Age razor: a design challenge Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen and Grahame Appleby; 10. Creativity as sensual cosmology: bird iconography on metalwork in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe Sebastian Becker; 11. Pots and stories: creativity and design in the Bronze Age of the Pannonian Plain Joanna Sofaer; 12. Left-right logic: an innovation of the Nordic Bronze Age Flemming Kaul; 13. Textiles: pattern, structure, texture, and decoration Karina Gr&&&246;mer; 14. Pattern, colour, and texture in encrusted ceramics in the Carpathian Basin Joanna Sofaer and Sanjin Miheli&&&263;; 15. Creating effects in Litzenkeramik Karina Gr&&&246;mer, Sanjin Miheli&&&263;, Sarah Coxon and Joanna Sofaer; Creativity and effects: reflections Joanna Sofaer, Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen and Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen; Conclusion Joanna Sofaer, Marie Louise Stig S&&&248;rensen and Lise Bender J&&&248;rgensen.
